Research and Development Work on UIMA tools

One of the core challenges facing text mining and natural language
processing (NLP) researchers and tool developers is the general lack of
interoperability between different tools and resources. At NaCTeM we
have looked to solve this by adapting our tools to function within the
UIMA framework enabling direct interaction with those tools provided by
other groups around the world.

We continually incorporate new NLP and Text Mining tools being developed
at our centre into our UIMA package, and co-operate with partner
institutes to support the development of large scale text mining
systems. A number of these tools are described below and will be updated
regularly. For further information on our work in this area or any of
the individual tools mentioned you can contact our team at nactem@manchester.ac.uk.

Main NaCTeM Local UIMA Tools

The following tools form the core of the current nactem UIMA package which interoperate via NaCTeM UIMA type system (The UIMA tools are not publically available yet).

This tool recognises and annotates gene and protein names in the input text.

Co-operation on UIMA Tools Development

We link our UIMA components with partners' tools to support comparison and development of large scale systems.

U-Compare

Our components are integrated into U-Compare. This is an integrated text mining/natural language processing system based on the UIMA Framework, which provides access to a large collection of ready-to-use interoperable natural language processing components, currently the world's largest UIMA component repository. U-Compare allows users to build complex NLP workflows via an easy drag-and-drop interface, and makes visualization and comparison of the outputs of these workflows simple.

U-Compare is the result of a collaboration between the Tsujii Laboratory at the University of Tokyo, the Center for Computational Pharmacology at the University of Colorado, and the National Centre for Text Mining. For further details, please see the U-Compare website